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Arts & Life
Though most of the poems we publish in this column are about staying at home in America and noticing what's happening around us, our poets do sometimes go abroad.
Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's poet laureate, has sent you the following picture postcard from Ireland. It's from her latest book, The Green House, published by Salmon Poetry.
Playing the Pipes
This morning in Dingle, the clouds
bellied down over the mountains
and broke into grey, white, and blue.
Winds flagged through the palm trees
that the man from the "Big House"
brought back to the bay long ago.
Up Greene Street, the school kids
in their dark uniforms gather
on the sidewalk by the Spar store.
Long ago, this was a Spanish town,
east of the Blasket Islands and west of
Connor Pass. The harbor is full of sails.
The piper sits in his little shop
on the rounding road, selling penny
whistles, telling anyone who will listen
how many ways there are
to vary the sound, how much
there is to think of all at once.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2017 by Joyce Sutphen from The Green House, (Salmon Poetry, 2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Joyce Sutphen and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2018 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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BREAKING IN (Rated PG-13)
A home invasion is a handy staple for predictable excitement and “Breaking In” falls into this category with such ease that little time is wasted in this fast-paced thriller of getting to the point.
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – On Sunday, May 27, at 3 p.m., the Tallman Hotel will present the innovative McCandless Foley-Beining Jazz Collaboration in an informal concert under the sycamore trees in the hotel garden.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The 1956 seafaring adventure, “Moby Dick” starring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart and Leo Genn, screens at the Soper Reese Theatre on Tuesday, May 22, at 1 and 6 p.m.
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